Particularly in the early years of the child's development, parents may get different opinions from professionals who view the chi...ld in different settings. A pediatrician seeing the child in a busy office diagnoses "attention deficit disorder"; a nursery school teacher who observes the child in an unruly classroom calls him "hyperactive" ... a psychologist or psychiatrist ... decides he's very active but not "hyper" and talks of emotional and family problems; while a neurologist, meeting with the child on a one-to-one basis,... says he is "normal."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A sweet disorder in the dressKindles in clothes a wantonness:...A lawn about the shoulders thrownInto a fine distraction:An erring lace, which here and thereEnthralls the crimson stomacher:A cuff neglectful, and therebyRibbands to flow confusedly:A winning wave (deserving note)In the tempestuous petticoat:A careless shoestring, in whose tieI see a wild civility:Do more bewitch me than when artIs too precise in every part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid dem...onstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (per...haps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention. If we could be attentive to the same degree in the presence of a human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I long to hear that you have declared an independancy [sic]--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be nec...essary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Laidies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebelion [sic], and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one pla...ce where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, wideningscope, but enjoying the freedom that...Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality of vision,that I have perceived nothing completely,that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, "I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me... the story of your life." I mean people are going to say, "You're crazy." Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they re...cruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been "spoiled" by the party system. Therefore they did not need to refute opposing arguments and consistently preferred methods which ended in death rather than persuasion, which spelled terror rather than conviction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »